LessWrong Context:
I didn’t want to write this.
Not for lack of courage—I’d meme-storm Putin's in the classroom if given half a chance. But why?
1- Too personal.
2- My life is tropical chaos: I survived the Brazilian BOPE (think a Marine post-COVID).
3- I’m dyslexic, writing in English (a crime against Grice).
4- This is LessWrong, not some Deep Web Reddit thread.
Okay, maybe a little lack of courage.
Then comes someone named Gwern. He completely ignores my thesis and simply asks:
"Tell military firefighter stories."
I was expecting some deep Bayesian analysis. Instead, I got a request for war stories. Fair enough. My first instinct was to dismiss him as an oddball—until a friend told me I was dealing with a legend of rationality. I have to admit: I nearly shit myself. His comment got more likes than the post I spent years working on.
Someone with [...]
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Outline:
(00:04) LessWrong Context:
(01:39) Firefighter Context:
(02:12) The Knife:
(03:16) Simultaneously, I:
(03:25) So
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First published:
March 4th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5XznvCufF5LK4d2Db/the-semi-rational-wildfirefighter
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